PHILIP GLASS

One of our partners, Russell Smith, has provided legal advice and related services for Philip Glass, the world's most successful living music composer.

FANTASTIC LIES

We are production counsel for this acclaimed ESPN documentary for Netflix, produced by Lightbox, on the subject of the Duke Lacrosse rape scandal

Stones In Exile

Production counsel for" Stones In Exile," a documentary film about the 1972 Rolling Stones album "Exile on Main St.," widely regarded as one of the greatest albums of all time.

Nutopia

We are among the counsel for this award-winning TV production company created by former Discovery Channel US President Jane Root.

Raw TV

US production counsel for Raw TV, a multi-award winning production company with a reputation for gripping narrative, visual innovation and journalistic vigour.

CONDÉ NAST ENTERTAINMENT

Condé Nast Entertainment (CNÉ) is an award-winning next generation production and distribution studio with content across film, television, social and premium digital video, and virtual reality.

THE YES MEN ARE REVOLTING

Continuing as counsel to "The Yes Men" in their third acclaimed feature film, designed to draw awareness to the issue climate change.

PLAN B ENTERTAINMENT

Among the counsel for Brad Pitt's production company, acclaimed for SELMA, 12 YEARS A SLAVE, THE BIG SHORT, THE DEPARTED, and other important films.

ALL THREE MEDIA AMERICA

We're among the counsel for All3Media America, the LA-based, multi studio production hub for one of the world's leading creators of high-quality content.

WE ARE THE GIANT

We're counsel on this acclaimed film, inspired by the Arab Spring. It tells stories of ordinary individuals transformed by moral and personal challenges.

SECRET LIVES OF AMERICANS

Counsel for groundbreaking documentary series by All3Media America and Participant Media.

PASSION PICTURES

We are counsel to this multiple Oscar winning film and television company behind Searching for Sugar Man, The Imposter, and Project Nim, to name a few.

Four Lions

Production counsel for "Four Lions," the BAFTA-award winning comedy about a group of British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point.

Bruno

Production and litigation counsel to Sacha Baron Cohen's award-winning film "Bruno."

DANGEROUS PERSUASIONS

We're production counsel for this gripping Discovery series that follows extraordinary, true accounts of psychological manipulation of everyday people.

Death of a President - Chicago Borough Films

Production counsel for "Death of a President," the Emmy Award-winning docudrama involving the fictional assassination of President George W. Bush.

BUSINESS OF FILM & TELEVISION COURSE - UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER

Together with top executives from clients HBO & Channel 4, we're teaching a graduate course in the business of film and television, at the University of Ulster, in Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

LIGHTBOX ENTERTAINMENT

US and UK counsel for this LA-and-London based production company founded by multiple Oscar and Emmy Award winning Simon Chinn and Jonathan Chinn, and funded by Channel 4.

BAFTA

Handling contract drafting and negotiations for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts

ITV

US counsel to the largest and most popular commercial television network in the United Kingdom.

LA 92

We were production counsel for this Primetime-Emmy-Award-winning feature, looking back at the protests and violence after the verdict in the Rodney King trial, through rarely seen archival footage.

HBO

Our attorneys have been among the production and claims counsel to Home Box Office, Inc.

Gold Rush: Alaska - Raw Television

Production counsel for the hit observational documentary television series, "Gold Rush: Alaska," about a group of men who risk everything in search of gold.

SmithDehn LLP's creative professionals are strategically located in cities as diverse as Los Angeles, New York, London, Washington DC, Derry Northern Ireland, Mysore India, and Asheville North Carolina. We have over 400 film, television and other media clients on both sides of the Atlantic and the Pacific. SmithDehn LLP is an international law firm that delivers top-tier service, while meeting the needs and budgets of companies and individuals in ways that few large firms can. We also are the only media and entertainment law firm that provides both US and UK legal services. We handle contract drafting, deal making, content/compliance solutions, and trademark/copyright services in both the US and the UK. In addition, we handle IP and other litigation matters across the US, and litigation support services in the UK. Our attorneys and business affairs professionals include expert practitioners who have come from the top of the legal and business affairs
departments of Netflix, HBO, Discovery, the BBC, 20th Century Fox, Magnolia Pictures, and ITV. Our clients have included many of the most successful production companies in the world, over half of the major Hollywood film studios, and seven of the leading television networks in the US and the UK. We also produce, finance, and sell film and television projects, through our joint venture, Convergent Media, and through another affiliate company, Divergent Pictures.